Sporty

Sporty makes it in here for its potential more than anything else. In a nutshell, Sporty wants to make it easy to create and join different sporting activities, based on your location. So if you’re organizing a game of football and looking for more players, then Sporty wants to be your go-to helper – conversely, if you’re one of the aforementioned ‘more players’, Sporty’s there to help hook you up to games in the area.

As with any similar app, its success will ultimately depend on the number of people using the service. If it can crack that nut, then Sporty could be onto a winner. It also needs to drop the requirement for Facebook to sign-up.

Skyscanner Hotel Search

The new app is slickly designed, with the homescreen featuring basic search parameters such as destination, dates and number of guests. You can elect to view your search results in a list format, or plotted on a map, while you can ‘Heart’ (bookmark) your favorite hotels too.

SideChef

SideChef is an iPad app that uses audio and visual cues to guide you through the cooking process, and as of last month it arrived for iPhone users too.

Kickstarter-funded SideChef serves up photos, instructions and voice commands to help you prepare dishes from 1,000 recipes. Perfect for when your hands are covered in flour and you don’t want to muck-up your iPhone.

Quora

You know Quora, right? If not, it’s the mega popular Q&A service that lets you ask just about any questions, with the collective knowledge of the world’s Web users merging to deliver answers. It’s now available on iPad, in addition to iPhone.

Acorns (US only)

Unfortunately, Acorns is a US-only app for now, but it makes it in here as it’s fairly unique (and should be going international eventually).

In a nutshell, Acorns wants to help you get rich by micro-investing your spare change. The service connects up with your credit or debit card and links in with any purchase you subsequently make. Acorns then ’rounds up’ to the nearest dollar and invests this for you in a “diversified portfolio of index funds,” offered by the likes of Blackrock, Vanguard, and PIMCO.

Product Hunt

Product Hunt has made something of a splash in recent months, helping its community of users find the best new products and companies. And it gained its first mobile app last month too, kicking off with iPhone.

It’s kind of like a Reddit specifically for cool new apps, with the platform’s passionate users upvoting the best of the best.

The basic principle remains the same for the sequel: you can find and identify stars, satellites, and comets in real-time, by holding your device up to the sky. The revamped incarnation has had a big makeover with fresh artwork depicting constellations, and generally been given a big fine-tuning.

Swing Copters

With Swing Copters, rather than navigating a bird sideways, you are tasked with guiding a little helicopter’s vertical flight while avoiding hammers that swing from each gate. Like Flappy Bird, you get a point for every gate that you pass through.

A new tagging system called ‘tastes’ is designed to let you choose specific food, drink and venue types that interest you most. Foursquare delivers a list of suggestions based on your prior check-ins, though you can search for new ones too. It’s kind of like Yelp, on steroids.